Browns Yard is a community in
Weldford Parish, New Brunswick
Weldford is a geographic parish in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between the villages of Five Rivers and Nouvelle-Arcadie, which are both members of the Kent Regional Service Commission, and the R ...
located 4.5 km NE of
Fords Mills close to the intersection of
Route 490 and
Route 510.
The church is St. Paul's
Anglican
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
and features an old cemetery where some of the earliest settlers of Weldford Parish were buried. The church continues to be the center of family life with activities for children, youth and many family events hosted at their church hall.
History
Browns Yard was once called Upper Main River, and had a post office from 1909 to 1956. There is a church near the shore and this was the site of shipbuilding operations with 7 ships claimed to have been constructed at Browns Yard.
Notable people
See also
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List of communities in New Brunswick
This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve, or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipal ...
References
Settlements in New Brunswick
Communities in Kent County, New Brunswick
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